[tor-dev] Proposal 342: Decouple hs_interval and SRV lifetime

Nick Mathewson nickm at torproject.org
Tue Jan 10 16:24:26 UTC 2023


On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 8:41 AM Holmes Wilson <h at zbay.llc> wrote:

> Apologies if I missed this in the proposal, but what are the benefits of
> this beyond decoupling? Will onion service users see benefits? Or is it
> just about simplifying the code?
>

There's no immediate benefit to users; it's entirely about making the code
more well-defined in the case where hs_interval is constant.

I'm attempting to do this now since we're starting to write onion services
in Arti, and it'll be easier if there are fewer ambiguities in the spec.

cheers,
-- 
Nick
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